A Tale of Two Book Groups
The Westmoreland Public Library hosts two book groups. One group reads a variety of topics, alternating between fiction and non-fiction. This group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 4 pm.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
The other group focuses on the specific genres of Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. This group meets on Saturday mornings at 11 am.
Below are the current reading selections for each group, the next meeting date, a list of upcoming selections, and a list of past selections.
The library provides copies of the month's selected titles.
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Next Book Group meeting will be
May 12 th, 2025, at 4 pm in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the May Meeting: Weyward by Emilia Hart 
I am a Weyward, and wild inside.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. 1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha, she knows it will take all her powers to maintain her freedom. 1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives––and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom. Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience. Reading List:
May Weyward by Emilia Hart June Isaac’s Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson July Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gaugin by Sue Prideaux August Slow Horses by Mick Herron September A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst October Less by Andrew Sean Greer November Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan December The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Past Selections: Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Bel Canto by Ann Patchett Walking with the Great Apes Sy Montgomery All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage Major Petttigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Braiding Sweetgrass, Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Maus by Art Spiegelman The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner Code Name Blue Wren by Jim Popkin |
Next Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Book Group meeting will be TBD in the library. Reading Selection for discussion
at the February Meeting: Fledgling by Octavia Butler 
Octavia Butler's last standalone novel is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
Reading List: March Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Rest is To Be Determined Come to the next meeting to help decide the reading list! We can't choose books you want to read without your input. Past reads: Carrie by Stephen King Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Murderland by Caroline Fraser King Sorrow by Joe Hill We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson |